User:Edem Agbenowu

Homework 1

←# : Very good. You have answered more questions than asked for. --Jouni (talk) 07:40, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

1.Environmental health assessment is the application of knowledge obtained from environmental health research about how decisions and actions about the environment affect our health and this provides the basis to support policy making.

2.Shared understanding is a written description of a topic and that it covers the thinking and reasoning of all stakeholders on the topic.At the end one or more poor decision option may be identified and rejected.

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4.Co-creation skills are skills that are needed so that information can be organized and synthesized.

5.Open assessment unlike other methods of assessment offers stakeholders the privilege to participate comment and also edit the content of a topic as it develops from the early stages with value judgment.

6.Benefit risk assessment is a methodology used for collecting, analyzing and synthesizing scientific information and values needed in a decision making process.

7.Open assessment is a platform for collecting organizing, synthesizing information that is needed in a decision making process.

8.The purpose for participation is to contribute information that is needed for decision making process and also to be able to predict the impact of different decision option on some outcome of interest and lastly organize information for decision makers.

9.The dimension of openness are the scope of participation,Access to information,timing of openness,scope of contribution and finally impact of contribution.

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11.Effectiveness of an environmental health assessment is seen when it is able to change values ,attitudes and behavior outside the walls of the research community

12 .Trialogical approach to learning is alearning or knowledge creating strategy where people develop and create some concrete things together through communication of their observation and description of the things they perceive to one another.

HOMEWORK 3

Question 1:I will like to know the differences between output and impact as related to open policy practice?

Question 2:In the main glossary section in explaining the term adverse effect the last part of the sentence said it could be an increase in susceptibility to other influences.I will be happy if that part of the definition is explained

ESSAY. Whenever we want to make a decision that affect so many people we try as much as we can to commit every resource available to make a right choice.It becomes more complicated when the decision we make affect millions of people.A new paradigm shift to help in decision making is the principle of co-creation.Co- creation provide a platform for joint collaborative effort to produce information typically supplied by facilitators or stakeholders utilizing online tools.It is avenue through which value could be built on some of the decision that are made with regards to governmental policies business ideas ,sustainable intervention for humans as well as the purpose of scientific research.In the area of governmental policies and law for instance it has been established that co-creation through the use of crowdsourcing provided platform for individuals to share their opinion and it yielded positive results.There is a lot of research on global sustainability in an effort to solve some of the prevalent world crisis.Through the application of co creation research will not only be designed to fill a knowledge gap but rather needs of the society.This will be possible if there is an integration of knowledge from natural,social, human science and engineering.The impact of co-creation as important in decision making process is very appreciated in the business market. It has become clear that consumers can choose the firms they want to have a relationship with based on their own views of how value should be created for them.We are moving toward a world in which value is the result of an implicit negotiation between the individual consumer and the firm. Therefore, value creation, for an automaker, for example, is the result of individualized negotiations with millions of consumers.

The existence of several stakeholders with distinct and often conflicting perspective,objectives values and interest always make the traditional decision support process time consuming because a lot of negotiation because they did not contribute to the creation of the policy.A

Another advantage of this paradigm shift have discouraged managers from being product-centered thinking and instead of focusing on the experiences that customers will seek to co-create. Additionally it has provided a new source of competitive advantage as companies can tap the experiences of the customer.In the end value will have to be jointly created by both the firm and the consumer unlike the traditional system where companies rather decided the value of the customer. Moreover this has provided companies to indirectly partition some of the work they had to handle to customers